Journey Home, David Gulpilil shows the film icon's remote homeland 'for the first time'

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images of a person who has died.

The late actor's family has granted permission to use his name and image.

As he was dying of lung cancer, legendary Yolŋu actor David Gulpilil set in motion the process of sharing a part of himself the world had never seen.

In his decades-long career, Gulpilil appeared in some of Australia's biggest films — including Crocodile Dundee, Australia and Rabbit-Proof Fence.

David Gulpilil was a famous Indigenous actor, celebrated as one of the NT's most well-known film stars. ( AAP: Terry Trewin )

But he had also aspired for many years to bring cameras into his tiny homeland of Gupulul, deep in north-east Arnhem Land's picturesque wetlands.

"No one knows that pla